Swanage (All Saints)

All Saints' Church, Wavell Road, Swanage, Dorset.

Pevsner reports that the church is by Robert Potter (Messrs Potter and Hare of Salisbury), 1956-57. It was designed to replace a wooden hut in Cliff Avenue that had originally been built (on a different site) during the First World War as a recreation centre (and church) for troops stationed at Ulwell.

Sources:

• Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The buildings of England: Dorset. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 410.
• Pitfield, F.P., Purbeck parish churches. Milborne Port: Dorset Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 56-58.
• Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 2, South-East Dorset. London: HMSO, 1970, pt. 2, p. 292.

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